Humans are the most dangerous animal on Earth. We represent just 0.01% of all living things and yet in our short time here, we have already had a catastrophic effect on the natural world: we have destroyed 83% of all wild mammals and 50% of all plants.
Of all mammals on Earth, 60% are now livestock, 36% are humans and just 4% are wildlife. Farmed poultry makes up 70% of all birds on the planet, with just 30% of birds being wild. How sad is it that most of the birds on Earth are not even able to fly?
We are adding 1 billion people to our planet every 12 years and for every billion people comes 10 billion farm animals. At our current rate of meat production and consumption we simply do not have a sustainable food system.
Every single environmental crisis we face: climate change, ocean acidification, habitat loss, pollution, species extinction - are all accelerated by our rapidly growing population! We cannot address the others properly without first addressing the core issue of the problem.
Charles Darwin said, "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change."
Humans must show evolutionary adaption by reducing population growth and meat consumption, as well as replacing the fossil fuel economy with a renewable energy economy! If we cannot, we will cease to exist.
